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HDA Truck Pride Adds Fleet Friction

HDA Truck Pride is continuing to grow by adding Fleet Friction. Fleet Friction is located in San Diego, Calif. Their management team includes: Owners Mike Buscher and Richard Harrigan and General Manager Craig Dawson.

Truck Safety Largely Exempt from Sequestration

Truck Safety Largely Exempt from Sequestration

There’s an air of resignation in Washington about the deep cuts in federal spending scheduled for March 1. If sequestration happens, the cuts could affect $1.2 trillion in discretionary and defense spending. Highway safety and construction programs would be spared, for the most part, because their money comes through the Highway Trust Fund.

J.J. Taylor Companies Announces Plans to Switch Fleets to CNG

J.J. Taylor Companies Inc. announced an open house, celebrating the launch of its private compressed natural gas fueling station and its transition to the more environmentally friendly, domestically produced fuel. With its corporate offices in Jupiter, Fla., J.J. Taylor has beer distribution operations in Tampa, Fort Myers and Fort Pierce, Florida as well as in Minneapolis, Minn.

Baldwin Filters Plans Expansion

Baldwin Filters’ manufacturing operations continue to grow in its Kearney and Gothenburg, Neb., and Yankton, S.D., facilities. With this growth comes the need for additional space at its Kearney headquarters location.

East Announces Retirement of Jerry Shepherd

East Announces Retirement of Jerry Shepherd

East Manufacturing Corp. Midwest Regional Sales Manager Jerry Shepherd has retired after 54 years of service to the trucking industry, the last 24 with East. He will be succeeded in this position by Mark Fletcher, who joined the company in March 2011.

Old Dominion Expands Facilities

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. recently expanded two of its facilities. It moved its Toledo Service Center to a larger, more modern location, and relocated its Paducah Service Center to a larger facility to improve service to customers in Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois.

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